Adorable!
Of course, he meant that the fiscal liberalism of the free-market system is absurd both in philosophy and practice, but the lost-in-translation-thingy is delightful!
Oh, here is a picture of where I am staying:
The window of my room is in the second row from the top, and the fourth window right of the clock. It has this view:
And this is the town of Saint Flour:
By the way, did you know that if you explain to the French transit authorities that you'll miss your math conference because only the first 8 cars of the train arrived (I was booked on 15), then they will let you sit in the passageway and call a fleet of cabs for you? It's true. It shows how much they respect mathematicians! And that they believe mathematicians never want to sleep or sit down, and enjoy it when the bathroom doors keep swinging open and showing just how much that toilet water sloshes around on the curves. Clearly, the mathematician is a very wondrous thing to the French!
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